Talking to Labor About Climate Change: Focus on the inevitability of climate change mitigation policies and the changes they will cause. Explore the positive aspects of this change: massive new investment is needed to … [Read more...]
Archives for February 3, 2010
The Patrick Campaign and Progressives, or, Should I Stay or Should I Go?
OK, OK, the new governor held some community town halls, it's true. But then, again, nothing. Patrick's first signature battle was, wait for it, casino gambling. That's right, fighting to institute a system for extracting … [Read more...]
Presenting our brand new Senator Teabagger Scott Brown
Scott Brown doing his best impression of an intellectual dining room table on 31 January 2010 on Barbara Walters: Federal employees are making twice as much as their private counterparts. Reality-based Fail, according to non-partisan … [Read more...]
Transcript – Pres.Obama’s NH Town Meeting
Q Hi. I'm Judy Loftus. I teach at Nashua South High School. (Applause.) I teach in the careers and education program, and that's a career and technical program that prepares students for lives working -- … [Read more...]
P-Town needs votes to become National Trust for Historic Preservation fave
Vote for Provincetown as the 2010 fan favorite "distinctive destination" on the National Historic Trust website. So far P-Town has the lowest number of votes - behind even Bastrop, TX and The Crooked Road, VA. What's the matter with … [Read more...]
Lobbying – a recession proof occupation
According to David Bernstein, in the Phoenix 25 million went to lobbyists on the record in 2009 which was a minor drop in totals. Who were the big winners, well, per Bernstein: In accordance with these shifting interests, there were winners … [Read more...]
Underpants bomber cooperating – no waterboarding required!
A popular right-wing meme is that you can only get useful information out of alleged terrorists by torturing them. Oh, what's that, Scott? Waterboarding isn't torture? All right, then -- by using "enhanced interrogation … [Read more...]
“Backroom” Strategists That Never Talk to a Policymaker are not Considered Lobbyists!
This new interpretation is consistent with Common Cause's view of the statute and that of Governor Patrick’s former chief legal counsel Ben Clements, who chaired the Governor's task force on Public Integrity and wrote the … [Read more...]
Scott Brown’s manly pose on prosecution and torture
This is the latest edition of Scott WRONG Brown.Brown, 1/11/10“To think we’d give people who want to kill us constitutional rights and lawyer them up at our expense, instead of treating them as enemy combatants to get as much … [Read more...]
About 5.1 million will own a home valued below 75 percent of what is owed!
This story talks about the sad reality that millions more homes will probably be lost to foreclosure in 2010. "People like me are beginning to feel like suckers," Mr. Koellmann said. "Why not let it go in default and rent a better place for … [Read more...]